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<p style="text-align:justify">Countries across Africa are experiencing unprecedented urban growth, presenting women with greater economic and social opportunities as well as greater risks to their safety and welfare. According to UN-HABITAT, “notable gender gaps in labour and employment, decent work, pay, tenure rights, access to and accumulation of assets, personal security and safety, and representation in formal structures of urban governance show that women are often the last to benefit from the prosperity of cities.”</p><p><a href="http://www.wluml.org/news/africa-women-and-urbanization" target="_blank">read more</a></p>KenyaViolence against womenAfricaCitiesThu, 18 Apr 2013 15:04:31 +0000yasmin8523 at http://www.wluml.org